Graham Clifford: We must reach out to Polish groups in Ireland to best help arriving Ukrainians

Without the support of Eastern European people all across Ireland, the Ukrainian resettlement programme cannot work

Voyteck Bialek of Together Razem Centre in Cork hosting a meeting between Polish and Ukrainian volunteers to decide on supports to aid Ukrainians. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

The sight of rows and rows of empty buggies on the platform of a border train station between Ukraine and Poland earlier this week was a thing of absolute tragic beauty. Polish mothers left the little carriages there for Ukrainian mothers to use when they crossed the border to safety.

Since this barbaric war erupted, the people of Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic have opened their arms to the hundreds of thousands fleeing — the traumatised, the shaken, the inconsolable, the young.